Araora ga yukinishi hi yori Shika no ama no Ōuratanu wa sabushiku mo aru ka

荒雄らが行きにし日より志賀の海人の
大浦田沼は寂しくもあるか

Roma-ji: Araora ga yukinishi hi yori Shika no ama no Ōuratanu wa sabushiku mo aru ka
English Translation: Since that day
when Arao went away,
Shika's fisherfolk
at Ōuratanu
find their home so lonely now.
Meaning: Ever since the day Arao went away, how lonely it has been at Ōuratanu, home of the fisherfolk of Shika!
Commentary: Book Sixteen Poems with Tales of Origin and Miscellaneous Poems 3863

Headnote continued from the preceding poem: "Ten poems on the fisherman of Shika in Chikuzen."
The poem says that since the day Arao left, Ōuratanu, the fishing village of Shika, has grown lonely. The absence of one man makes the whole village feel empty, conveying a deep sense of loss.
According to the left note, in the Jinki era the Dazaifu appointed Munakatabe no Tsumaro of Munakata District in Chikuzen as helmsman of a ship carrying provisions to Tsushima. Too old to bear the sea, Tsumaro asked Arao, a fisherman of Shika village, to take his place, and Arao, bound by a friendship deeper than brotherhood, gladly agreed. He set sail for Tsushima from Cape Mineraku at Matsura in Hizen, but the sky suddenly darkened, a storm of wind and rain arose, and he sank beneath the sea. Some say his wife and children, unable to bear their longing, made these poems; others that Yamanoue no Okura, Governor of Chikuzen, made them in sympathy with their grief.
The poet, according to one account in the left note, is Yamanoue no Okura, who went to Tang China with an embassy and served as Governor of Chikuzen. He is known for poems on life's hardships and family affection. The poems speak in the voice of Arao's wife and children.

First line, "Araora ga," means "Arao."
Second line, "yukinishi hi yori," means "since the day he went." The perfective nu and past ki present his departure as a thing gone by.
Third line, "Shika no ama no," means "of the fisherfolk of Shika," hypermetric at six syllables.
Fourth line, "Ōuratanu wa," names Ōuratanu, thought to be a place on Shikanoshima.
Final line, "sabushiku mo aru ka," means "how lonely it is." Ka is exclamatory, deeply lamenting the village's emptiness without Arao.
Author: Yamanoue no Okura (attributed)
Source: Manyoshu
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